It never ceases to amaze me how useful the QuickFinder books are. As I’ve said on several occasions, I have been buying them for each of the past 20 plus years and refer to them a number of times each day.

They add new features every year, but I generally don’t have time to check out every page when the new editions arrive. I was looking through the 1040 book for something today and came across this excellent two-page summary of idiotic arguments used by tax protestor morons, and the reasons why they are wrong. I pulled out my QuickFinder book from last year, and confirmed that these pages are new for the 2004 book.

Counterfeit Stamp Use on the Rise – With the cost of postage always going up, and higher denomination stamps being issued (we buy lots of $3.85 stamps for Priority Mail), this shouldn’t be a surprise. Postage stamps are just like cash, and I can remember back when people did use them as a means of sending payments through the mail. I’ve long wondered why IRS didn’t include postage stamps as a “cash equivalent” on Form 8300, where cash transactions of over $10,000 are to be reported.

This couldn’t be much worse than most so-called investment gurus.